Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood in 1969
Berkshire Music Center and Fromm Music Foundation co sponsor the festival running July 30 to Aug 3 and Aug 11 to 18. It features electronic music chamber and orchestral works plus opera and dance with premieres commissioned by BMC and Fromm. Highlights include Schuller conducting works by Halffer and Antoniou piece Event M1, and the premiere Beyond the Ghost Spectrum with Tilson Thomas. Leinsdorf conducts BMC Orchestra in Bergs Wozzeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkshire Music Center
Fromm Music Foundation
BMC
Fromm
Tanglewood
Gunther Schuller
Halffler
Theodore Antoniou
Michael Tilson Thomas
Erich Leinsdorf
Alban Berg
Stravinsky Ballet
L’histore du Soldat
Mr. Leinsdorf
Edwin Dugger
Phillip Rhodes
My Schuller
Mr. Thomas
Paul Zafofsky
Boston Symphony hosts 1949 Music Critics Association meet
The Boston Symphony Orchestra will host the 1949 Music Critics Association meeting at Tanglewood August 11 to 14. Miles Kastendieck chairs panels on composition, arts funding, and criticism, with a Critics Institute intro and a press conference on broadcasting techniques. Baldwin Piano demos electro-concert grand. Stravinsky ballet L'Histore du Soldat with Leinsdorf on August 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Music Critics Association
Tanglewood
Miles Kastendieck
New Critics Institute
Boston Symphony Orchestra and Acoustic Research, Inc
Baldwin Piano Co
Earl Wild
BSO
Tanglewood Offers Amateurs Arts Seminar
Boston University hosts a July 28 to August 10 arts seminar at Tanglewood for amateurs. Residents enroll to audit dance theatre music and painting with BU faculty. Attendees will also see Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge and Williamstown Summer Theatre. Mrs. Mac Morgan leads the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston University
Tanglewood
Berkshire Theatre Festival
Stockbridge
Williamstown
Mac Morgan
Watershed moment in music as festival seasons convene
The article contemplates how musical eras blur and overlap from Debussy to Mahler, noting Stravinsky’s Firebird within broader 20th century works. Erich Leinsdorf calls music at a watershed, highlighting Tanglewood and Berkshire festivals and the shifting perception of historical periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Strauss
Debussy
Mahler
Stravinsky
Elektra
Erich Leinsdorf
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Berkshire Musical Center
Watersheds and the music watershed of our time
A critic argues that music splits at a watershed after World War II, with divisions between traditional classical forms and modern explorations like jazz and rock. He notes limited living composers performed at Tanglewood, cites Cage and other avant garde examples, and questions public appetite for new sounds versus established tradition.
Movie Timetable for Area Theaters
The listings show multiple cinemas in the region offering screenings this week. Capitol and Palace feature two to three showings daily including Otley and The Daring Young Men, with matinees on select days. other venues list titles such as Goodbye Columbus Oliver! Mackenna's Gold The Love Bug and The Wrecking Crew with varied start times and dusk showings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunset Drive-In
Chamber of Horrors
Berkshire Drive-in
Pittsfield Drive-In
Williamstown Native Returns in Lead Role
Williamstown native John Perry, son of Allen Perry, returns to the Williamstown Theatre in the lead role of the Singer and narrator in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Perry, a 1963 St. Lawrence University graduate, joined the Serendipity Singers in 1966 and has since appeared in Gypsy, Your Own Thing, The Fantasticks, Now Is the Time for As Good Men, and the Dallas version of Trivia La Douce with Chita Rivera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
John Perry
Allen Perry
Williamstown Theatre
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Mr. Perry
Psacharopoulos
Bertolt Brecht
Serendipity
St. Lawrence University
Serendipity Singers
Hullaballoo
Bell T&ephone Hour
Serendipity Group
Tony Tanner
Ann Sothern
Orson
Florida
el Gailo
New York
Theatre de Lys
Perry
Dallas
Chita Rivera
Southampton
Psacharopoulous
Perry Is
String Quartet To Play Today At Tanglewood
The Boston String Quartet, Boston Conservatory fellowship group, will perform at Tanglewood this afternoon at 2 30 replacing a composers forum. The program includes Schubert Quartet in G major Opus 161 and Schoenberg Quartet No 2 in B minor with soprano Joan Heller, featuring Rudolf Kolisch and Joseph Silverstein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston String Quartet
New England Conservatory
Tanglewood
Rudolf Kolisch
Koisch Quartet
Joseph Silverstein
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composers Forum
Schubert
Joan Heller
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Huggler
John Hugeler
Theatre Concert Hall
Daa DY Lee
Pepeait
Ers Gregory
Omar Peck
Sharif
Carl Foreman
Mackenna
Hilion Technicolor
Tereophone Sound
Wrecking Crew
Dean Martin
Showtime
Shoreleraphy
Doug Wou
Fennoddy
Clnerreed Hay Srogvee
Lai Dray
Chem EE
Union 5
Movie Audience Guide
Hii
Tain
Massachusetts
Housatonic
Connecticut
Leinsdorf
Boston Symphony
Capitol
Palace
Columbus
Sun
Paris
Oliver
Matinee
Coury
North Adams
Hoosac Drive-in
Adams
West Springfield
Berkshire
Stockeridge
Walrus
Timon
William Shakespeare
Gordon Togo
Nes
Borg
England
Fpitsfield
Miguel
Herbie
Walt Disney Productions
Michele Jones Lee Tomlinson Hackett
Boks Day
Brian
Keith
Berkshire Tiueetee Srerteriel
Tom Courtenay
Romy Schneider
Otle
Vincent Price
Christopher Lee
Cesare Canova
Suzy Parker
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Ae Choe
Wiverdale
W. Sfflo
Lorel Barts
West
Sears St Eee
Mackenna’s Gold
Aeneas
Bes Sho
Ceia Ae Fos
Newiwen
Alan Arkin
Fede Intl
Vingjae
Ann Uri
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